“Knowing that she was about to die, my aunt said that she would have less regret about leaving this world if she knew that she would still be able to send letters. I feel that my camera acts as an antenna – to receive signals carrying urgent messages from the lost lives and objects that fill the air all around us. I also believe that it is this frantic whispering of death that pushes me to take these photographs, and enables me to continue living…” – Akiko Takizawa : Artist Statement

“Ludek Vojtechovský scorns the attractions of the never ending cycle of newly discovered, perfect cameras that produce any type of photograph simply by pushing a button. He’d rather lock himself in a darkroom with his enlarger and use the white surface of sensitive photographic paper or a negative to create photographs in accordance with his own desires – in harmony, from gray to white to a velvety black. He’s by his own choice a solitary walker amid the hunters of accidental encounters.” – B Kolarova

“I don’t know much about my philosophy which is still being defined, but to tell the truth I don’t think it really needs to be defined. I mainly use the pinhole camera, a technique that I have used now for over 20 years. The cameras and hand holes are all made by me, this is one of the reasons why I decided to use this technique since it allows me to build my own visual space/photo space in full freedom and to use all the sensitive materials provided by polaroid and fuji, from photo paper to digital. I can also use long exposure times and see life and things from a different point of view, giving me time to think and understand better… The common theme of my photos is often the journey, where the photos can be used as a clipboard memory, hence on returning from my travels I can re-elaborate my ideas and seek common themes to link the images together.” Luca Baldassari